How to Use senate in a Sentence

senate

noun

• The Senate approved the bill.
• The Senate voted to repeal the tax cut.
• Its senate’s Democrats are just short of that fraction, with 60 percent of the seats.
  — Kyle Sammin, National Review, 28 June 2019
• The GOP bills that could increase the presence of guns in schools are unlikely to pass the state senate.
  — Sanya Mansoor, Time, 23 Aug. 2023
• The same day the school's academic senate called on Nikias to resign.
  — NBC News, 26 May 2018
• In 49 states, this process takes place separately in the state senate and state house.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 14 May 2018
• However, the bill failed to pass in the senate in September last year.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 31 Mar. 2020
• This all feels like a philosopher king increasing his grip on the U.S. senate.
  — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2022
• The chairman of the senate finance committee at the time wouldn't let the bill out of his committee.
  — Bria Felicien, ajc, 20 June 2018
• The Dems have to hold on to all of these seats to have any chance of taking the senate from the Republicans in November.
  — Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 31 May 2018
• He was impeached but avoided removal by one vote in the senate.
  — Matthew Glenesk, Indianapolis Star, 31 Dec. 2019
• Previously a home to the supreme leaders of Venice, the palace also housed courts, prisons, and the senate.
  — Oddur Thorisson, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 June 2018
• The actor and advocate used his time in front of the senate to also talk about the need for more outspoken men.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 26 June 2018
• An effort to overturn Indiana’s ban on light rail failed in the state’s senate in March.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 29 June 2018
• Virginia also has one such bill that was moved to the state senate on February 5.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Feb. 2020
• In the senate one Democrat voted no and five either did not vote or voted present.
  — Jonathon Berlin, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2019
• Board members are appointed by the governor and serve with the advice and consent of the state senate.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2020
• Woman running for senate in the 2018 midterm elections.
  — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 1 Oct. 2018
• The answer could be SB 346, a bill making its way through Florida's state senate.
  — Tyler Kendall, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2019
• New website just launched to help a potential senate run.
  — Tal Kopan, SFChronicle.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• McMorrow has raised more than $2 million to help Democrats flip the Michigan senate.
  — Time, 3 Oct. 2022
• In the mid-1980s, John Perry Barlow tried to follow his father into the Wyoming state senate, losing the election by one vote.
  — Jesse Jarnow, WIRED, 5 June 2018
• The new restriction was so contentious among hunters that earlier this month, the state senate advanced a bill that would overturn the ban for next year.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2019
• Mr Tokayev also affirmed Mr Nazarbayev’s daughter Dariga as head of the senate and thus next in line to the presidency.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• While at the university, Kahn was chairman of the EE department and held a seat on the faculty senate.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 June 2020
• The characters all reunited to help Payton get back on his feet and campaign for New York state senate.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 27 Sep. 2019
• And Wexton, who has already won a state senate seat in the district, is approaching the primary as the front-runner.
  — Dan Merica, CNN, 12 June 2018
• Alabama’s Kay Ivey did the same on Wednesday—just as the Missouri senate was approving an eight-week ban.
  — Laurel Leicht, Marie Claire, 17 May 2019
• This starts with electing candidates like Laura Ellman to the state senate.
  — Naperville Sun, 22 June 2018
• One of the champions of the bill in the senate was Eric Schmitt, a Republican who is now the state’s attorney general.
  — John Eligon, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024